accused him
of visiting other ladies, he, to be revenged on her for shutting him out
of his own house, determined to go and dine with this lady, and she
receiving him with great civility, and his wife having so highly
offended him, Antipholus promised to give her a gold chain, which he had
intended as a present for his wife; it was the same chain which the
goldsmith by mistake had given to his brother. The lady liked so well
the thoughts of having a fine gold chain, that she gave the married
Antipholus a ring; which when, as she supposed (taking his brother for
him), he denied, and said he did not know her, and left her in such a
wild passion, she began to think he was certainly out of his senses; and
presently she resolved to go and tell Adriana that her husband was mad.
And while she was telling it to Adriana, he came, attended by the jailor
(who allowed him to come home to get the money to pay the debt), for the
purse of money, which Adriana had sent by Dromio, and he had delivered
to the other Antipholus.

Adriana believed the story the lady told her of her husband's madness
must be true, when he reproached her for shutting him out of his own
house; and remembering how he had protested all dinner-time that he was
not her husband, and had never been in Ephesus till that day, she had no
doubt that he was mad; she therefore paid the jailor the money, and
having discharged him, she ordered her servants to bind her husband with
ropes, and had him conveyed into a dark room, and sent for a doctor to
come and cure him of his madness: Antipholus all the while hotly
exclaiming against this false accusation, which the exact likeness he
bore to his brother had brought upon him. But his rage only the more
confirmed them in the belief that he was mad; and Dromio persisting in
the same story, they bound him also, and took him away along with his
master.

Soon after Adriana had put her husband into confinement, a servant came
to tell her that Antipholus and Dromio must have broken loose from their
keepers, for that they were both walking at liberty in the next street.
On hearing this, Adriana ran out to fetch him home, taking some people
with her to secure her husband again; and her sister went along with
her. When they came to the gates of a convent in their neighbourhood,
there they saw Antipholus and Dromio, as they thought, being again
deceived by the likeness of the twin-brothers.

Antipholus of Syracuse was still beset wit